Professor Gantt's presentation focused on defining leadership,
explaining the need for leadership education in law schools, and identifying
specific initiatives Regent Law has implemented to promote leadership
developments among its students.

"Many leaders in this country are lawyers," said
Professor Gantt. "Yet law schools
have traditionally focused very little on how they can prepare
students for these leadership roles. As law schools devote more
instruction on the skills that are important for professional success, we as
legal educators need to do more to help our students understand the
skills and attributes of effective leaders."

ETL is one of the chief initiatives of the Institute for the
Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS), a national, independent
research center dedicated to facilitating continuous improvement and advancing
excellence in the American legal system.

One of the ways ETL encourages implementation of reforms in
legal education is by holding an annual conference attended by legal educators,
bar leaders, judges, and other attorneys interested in legal education.
This year’s conference, held October 1-3, 2015, had the theme of "Building on the Foundations for Practice," which included the unveiling of ETL survey results intended to identify the
foundations entry-level lawyers need to succeed in practice.

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